This past week we spent in Clovis, California, where Brooke's 10U Allstar softball team took part in the Western Nationals Tournament. Here is a picture of Brooke and DJ watching the game before and waiting for our game to begin.
Dear Loved Ones, Please pardon my tardiness in posting to this blog. I have the sense that some of you have been waiting around since July 25, wondering what the CT results were of DJ's scan on that day. And here I have been, nonchalantly going about my life, neglecting to post, while you are biting your nails! Or, perhaps you have only casually wondered about the goings on of DJ's pulmonary lumpy bump and haven't really given the issue much thought. In any case, here is the "answer":
The nodule which measured at 1.0 centimeter in March 2011 and 1.2 centimeters in May 2011 has grown ever so slightly; it measured 1.3 centimeters on July 25, 2011, hardly anything. On the very next day, radiation oncologist Dr. Wong in Fresno met with some other professionals in the field and discussed DJ's case. Because the nodule is so teeny tiny little, and since its growth is so slow, there really isn't anything to do right now. DJ has absolutely no symptoms, the lumpy bump has tested "negative to cancer", so the only thing to do now is to wait and watch.
Hmmmm...watching and waiting...waiting and watching. I sense some life lessons here, some spiritual parallels, something which will inform our process of faith. And I hear in my heart the tunes of a lovely song by Tim Hughes, the one which was especially close to my heart on April 14, 2010, as I waited and watched in the waiting room at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center for DJ's operation:
"God, in my living, there in my breathing,
God, in my waking, God, in my sleeping,
God, in my resting, there in the working,
God, in my thinking, God, in my speaking:
Be my everything, be my everything, be my everything, be my everything.
God, in my hoping, there in my dreaming,
God in my WATCHING, God, in my WAITING,
God, in the laughing, there in the weeping,
God, in the hurting, God, in the healing:
Be my everything, be my everything, be my everything, be my everything, be my everything.
Christ in me, Christ in me, Christ in me, the hope of glory -
You are everything, You are everything, You are everything, You are everything."
(This song is worth a listen on Play List or YouTube, if you are so inclined. It is lovely.)
So there you have it. We're not doing much of anything, except living and breathing and waking and sleeping and resting and working and thinking and speaking and hoping and dreaming and watching and waiting, et cetera. I hope that we will spend more of our time and energy and focus of the watching and waiting on Jesus, and less on the lumpy bump. Jesus is certainly worth the watching and the waiting. :-)
The end! Happy August! Today is Alexandra Bigelow's 13th birthday, and I love that kid!
Thank you for watching and waiting with us. We love and appreciate you! :-)
